Analysis of Song- I'd be a Fairy King
Charles Sangster 1822 (Kingston) – 1893
Oh, I'd be a Fairy King,
With my vassals brave and bold;
We'd hunt all day,
Through the wildwood gay,
In our guise of green and gold;
And we'd lead such a merry, merry life,
That the silly, toiling bee,
Would have no sweet
In its dull retreat,
So rich as our frolic glee.
I'd be a Fairy King,
With my vassals brave and bold;
We'd hunt all day,
Through the wildwood gay,
In our guise of green and gold.
At night, when the moon spake down,
With her bland and pensive tone,
The fairest Queen
That ever was seen
Would sit on my pearly throne;
And we'd lead such a merry, merry life,
That the stars would laugh in show'rs
Of silver light,
All the summer night,
To the airs of the passing Hours.
I'd be a Fairy King,
With my vassals brave and bold;
We'd hunt all day
Through the wildwood gay,
In our guise of green and gold.
We'd talk with the dainty flow'rs,
And we'd chase the laughing brooks;
My merry men,
Through grove and glen,
Would search for the mossy nooks;
And we'd be such a merry, merry band,
Such a lively-hearted throng,
That life would seem
But a silvery dream
In the flowery Land of Song.
I'd be a Fairy King,
With my vassals brave and bold;
We'd hunt all day,
Through the wildwood gay,
In our guise of green and gold.
Scheme | aBCCBDeffeABCCB xghhgDijjiABCCB iikkixlmmlABCCB |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (44%) |
Metre | 1110101 1110101 1111 1011 01011101 0111010101 1010101 1111 01101 11110101 110101 1110101 1111 1011 01011101 1110111 1010101 0101 11011 1111101 0111010101 1011101 1101 10101 101101010 110101 1110101 1111 1011 01011101 1110101 0110101 1101 1101 111011 0111010101 1010101 1111 101001 00100111 110101 1110101 1111 1011 01011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,193 |
Words | 240 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 15, 15, 15 |
Lines Amount | 45 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 311 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 79 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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